The Hot Seat

[gtfan088]

This thread started out with an assessment of coaches who might be on a hot seat. It has now morphed into you and me going around about the status of FSU football. You have your opinion and I have mine. You are certainly entitled to your opinion. But I highly doubt you see and hear what I do about the program. The people around this program know it is much deeper than "the QB sucks, and the team has quit around him". Anyway, have a good night.

Touche. My only response to that is that sometimes an outsider's perspective provides a little healthy objectivity that's impossible to really have if you're close to the program.

 

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Touche. My only response to that is that sometimes an outsider's perspective provides a little healthy objectivity that's impossible to really have if you're close to the program.

Let's agree on this....love some Jackets....and wait for my book on Coach Dodd. He was something more that most people even knoe!

 

[gtyellowjackets]

One thing that was always curious to me was Dodd was always a big gambler. Like at golf and tennis. I thought he had to quit golf over it. Almost like an addiction

 

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One thing that was always curious to me was Dodd was always a big gambler. Like at golf and tennis. I thought he had to quit golf over it. Almost like an addiction

Early in his career, he played a lot of golf at East Lake and Capital City. He loved the hustle, but was never over the top with it. He recognized he needed to back off a bit, and went the tennis route. He was a competitor, all through his life, and at Bitsy Grant, he was a tough match for anyone.

 

[texstinger]

Early in his career, he played a lot of golf at East Lake and Capital City. He loved the hustle, but was never over the top with it. He recognized he needed to back off a bit, and went the tennis route. He was a competitor, all through his life, and at Bitsy Grant, he was a tough match for anyone.

Sadly, if caused him to ignore a lot of his AD duties.

 

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Sadly, if caused him to ignore a lot of his AD duties.

I am not really sure what he neglected as an AD, but I do know what he meant to Tech football and the entire community. It was way more than winning games, which he did an amazing job with, but the honor, class, and love he had for his players. I still believe had he been able to recruit on a level field with other southern schools, he would be considered one of the top 2 or 3 coaches of all time.

 

[18in32]

Talk of firing McElwain is insane. Two SECCG appearances in two seasons. And frankly he's not out of it this year either. If UF can pull the upset this weekend and win out, and if UGA loses to AU, and UF is back in the SECCG again.

BUMP to note how wrong I was...